Lightning vs. Panthers Game One: A Critical Preview

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00:00Well, another good team is the Lightning in their building at Amelie.

00:04They have been very impressive this year at home.

00:08And Florida beat them once there around Christmastime.

00:11They go at it tonight in game one.

00:13And you saw that price at minus a buck and a quarter somewhere in that

00:16neighborhood for the Lightning and even money on the Panthers.

00:20They got guys out of that lineup, though, in that Florida lineup.

00:24We don't know if Kachuk's going.

00:26We got guys still suspended in that lineup that matter.

00:31Heck, Vlad, right?

00:32Am I crazy?

00:32Isn't that who it is?

00:33I think he's the guy that's out.

00:35One of the reasons, yeah, he's out.

00:37He is out.

00:40But one of the reasons why, Scott, like Edmonton are in the spot that they're in

00:44and Florida are in the same spot kind of right now.

00:47They play too much hockey, bro.

00:49Right?

00:50It adds up.

00:51The Florida Panthers have made the finals two years in a row.

00:54Think about that.

00:54And they played seven-game series.

00:57So you add it up.

00:58Like, they've literally played, I don't know, like 50 games type thing, extra.

01:03Like, it's extra hockey.

01:04You throw in the Four Nations face-off that a lot of the Panthers were in.

01:09And the Oilers were.

01:10And the Oilers were in, incidentally.

01:12And funny enough, Connor McDavid was never the same.

01:13Isn't that where, you know, Matty Kachuk got hurt at the Four Nations?

01:18Yeah, yeah.

01:19Kachuk got hurt at the Four Nations.

01:21Who's the dude?

01:22Who's the dude on the Bruins?

01:23On the Bruins?

01:24He never played again.

01:27McAvoy.

01:27Yeah, McAvoy.

01:27McAvoy, yeah.

01:29McAvoy got shots, had to go to the hospital.

01:31So I'm just stating that, like, the wear and tear of hockey is real.

01:35And then you play.

01:37You go to the two Stanley Cup finals in a row, man.

01:40That's a lot of freaking hockey.

01:42Dude, last night, the Washington Capitals, they had 20 hits in the first period.

01:46I think they ended up with, like, 58 hits or something.

01:49So think, like, just imagine, guys, if you're a team and you get hit, let's say, like, 40, 50 times a night, times six or seven times four.

01:57Like, you're literally getting body checked and smashed into the glass, Scott, like, 318 times in, like, a three-week span.

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